The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)
56 min
Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.
- Release date
- October 24, 2019
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Billy Che Brooks as Self
- Kathleen Cleaver as Self
- Ericka Huggins as Self
- Jose Jimenez as Self
- Omar Lopez as Self
- Howard Saffold as Self
Crew
- Fred Hampton · Archive footage
- Jesse Jackson · Archive footage
- Bob Lee · Archive footage
- Bobby Rush · Archive footage
- Ray Santisteban · Director
- Ray Santisteban · Producer
- Angélica Negrón · Composer
- Gustavo Aguilar · Cinematographer
- Rick Butler · Cinematographer
- Jason Chiu · Cinematographer
- Vicente Franco · Cinematographer
- Leah Marino · Editor
- Matt E. Novak · Editor